(1493 – 22 August 1543) was a

samurai were the hereditary military nobility and officer caste of History of Japan#Medieval Japan (1185–1573/1600), medieval and Edo period, early-modern Japan from the late 12th century until their abolition in 1876. They were the well-paid retai ...

lord of the

Mizuno clan The was a Japanese kin group which claimed descent from Minamoto no Mitsumasa, son of Minamoto no Tsunemoto of the Seiwa Genji clan. Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). ''Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon''; Papinot, (2 ...

of feudal Japan. He was the father of Odai no Kata, the mother of ''

shōgun , officially , was the title of the military dictators of Japan during most of the period spanning from 1185 to 1868. Nominally appointed by the Emperor, shoguns were usually the de facto rulers of the country, though during part of the Kamakur ...

Tokugawa Ieyasu was the founder and first ''shōgun'' of the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan, which ruled Japan from 1603 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. He was one of the three "Great Unifiers" of Japan, along with his former lord Oda Nobunaga and fel ...

. In 1533 by Mizuno Tadamasa built and ruled Kariya Castle. Tadamasa was also the father of Mizuno Nobumoto and Mizuno Tadashige.

Literature

*Sadler, AL: Shogun: The Life of Tokugawa Ieyasu . Tuttle Publishing, 1978. ISBN 978-4-8053-1042-7 . (In English) {{DEFAULTSORT:Mizuno, Tadamasa Mizuno Tadamasa Mizuno Tadamasa Samurai Mizuno clan Place of birth unknown Place of death missing Date of birth unknown